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KYSTTBY OF THE HTJMA5 HEASX.
BT OTTS ME&UHT.
Midnlaht pt t Nor aonnd of ansbt
TLronRh tb ailent hoiue bat tu wind at his
prmyem.
I at by the dying fire and thought
Of the dear, dead woman np stair.
A night of tears ; for the gnety rain
Had ceased, but the eavea were dripping yet ;
And the moon locked forth, as though in pain,
With her face all white and wet.
JJobody with roe my watch to keep,
bnt the friend cf my bosom, the man I lore ;
And grirf has sent him fast asleep
In the chamber up above,
Xobody else, In the country p'ace
All round, tbat knew of my loss beside,
Bot the good .-young priest with the lUphael face.
Who coufeBS.'d her when she died.
That good young priest is of gpntle nerve.
And my grief had moved him beyond control ;
1 .r his li. s grew white, as I could observe,
W hen he speeded her parting soul.
I fat by the dreary hearth alone ;
I thought of the dreary days of yore ;
"'d- " rbe of my life is gone ;
The woman I love is no more.
On her cold, dead bosom my portrait lies,
hich next to her heart she nsed to wear,
llanntiug it o'er with her tender eyea
When my dear face was nt there.
" It Is set all around with rubies red,
And jK-ar!s whk-h a I'eri might have kept ;
I-r each ruby there my heart bath bled
For each luirl my eyes have wept."
And I said, " The thing is precious to me;
They wiil bury her soon in the church-yard
clay;
It lies on hr hearf, aud lost mut be
If i d ) not take it ay."
I liijhted my lamp ai the dying name,
Aud crept up the Hairs that cracked for fright ;
Tiil into the chamber of death I came,
Where ehe lay in all her white.
As I stretched my baud I held my breath ;
I turned a I drew the curtain apart ;
1 dared not liKk on the face of death,
I knew where to nnd her heart.
I thought, at first, as my touch fell there.
It had warmed that heart to life with love ;
For the t'liiig I touched was warm, I swear,
And I could feel it move.
Tuas the hand of a man, that was moving slow
O'er the heart of the dead from the other side ;
And at once the sweat broke over my brow
' Who is robbing the corjwe?" I cried.
O,iosite me, by the tapoi ' light,
Tllfi Xt "L Mf- my bosom, the man I loved,
Stood our the corpse, and all as white
And nuther of iu moved.
What do yon here, my friend The man
I.-xiked firi-t at nie and then at the dead.
" There i a portrait h-re." he began;
" There if. It is miue:" I fa:d.
Said the friend of my lxw-.ro, "Yours, no doubt,
T.ie portrait wa, till a month ago,
When tl.U BurlVrirg aug-l took that out
AKd i laced aims here, I know.
This woman, i-he loved me well,' sa:d I,
' A mouti ago," paid my friend to me.
' And iu your ibroat." I groaned, "yon lie !"
He aubwered : Iet ns see.'
" Enough ?" I returned ; "let the dead decide ;
Aud, whoever the portrait prove,
He Fha'l it Ik when the caue is tried
Where IVath i.n arraigned by LovC
We found the portrait there, in its place ;
e op ned it in the taiier'a shine;
The gi njs were all u. changed ; the face
Ws niitUer bis cor mine.
" (me rail drives out another, at least f
The face of the jwrtrait there," I cried,
" I Mir friend's the Riphaol-faced young priebt,
Who confessed her when sh died."
THE MOSS-GATHERER OF MON
TEREY. Twenty years ago, Monterey, tbat
quaint, dreamy town of the past, which
lias nover caught the feverish inspira
tion of the present, was little different
from the Monterey of to-day. The wars
of the outside world, the king-makings,
and revolutions, and discoveries, and
inventions, had no power to send a sin
gle thrill of interest or excitement
through the veins of her somnolent
Spanish iopnlation. So long as the
roses bloomed, aud the winter rains
ma le the hills preen for the immense
herds of cattle which then tenanted the
Salinas plains now a great harvest Geld
so long did tho people of Monterey,
pro it 1 of their long stretch of sea-beacb,
their roses, and the dark beauty of their
daughters, take the pleasant afternoon
siesta, and dance to the music of the
Rtittar at etiruival time. Twenty years
ago, Es to-dtiy, the cattle roamed through
the quiet streets, and the same loving
hands that planted feeble rose-cuttings,
now, with less of the dimpled molding
of yore, cull with the same delicate care
th- buds from the mature tree".
On a glorious May dawn in 185-, as
the pun crept over th? pines that senti
nel tho hills in ti e rear of the town, a
young girl stood on the beach watching
the r ceding tide. As tho sunlight sil
vered the lot g reach of vands and glis
tened on the wet rocks, it touched with
loving splendor a face of singular leau
tv, wit h features as clear cut as a cameo.
Juanilla was tho daughter of an old
w haler who for many years bad followed
leviathan in tho lagoons of southern
California, but an Resident caused by
the staving-in of a boat made him a
cripple, and, except his little adobe
homestead and the labor of Jnanilla, he
had nothing in his old age to derend
on. Sho was a moss-gatherer, who made
pretty pictnre-frames of shells and sea
weed and sold them to the crews of
naval nnd merchant vesselp. An early
riser was Jnanilla. The dawn saw her
on the beach whr u the tide suited her
occupation, and the porch of the adebe
cottage was a wilderness of crimson,
whUe, and yellow roses. Her beauty
was not of that sleepy, indolent sort, so
characteristic of the Spanish women
It had more of tho animated graoe and
litho Minplo vigor of the fishermen's
danHiters of th British islands.
" Mad re dr. Dion .'" said Bhe, softly,
as f-he sprung from the top of a treach
erous granite ioek to the sands, "bow
thtss strangers aro carrying off my
si f Us ! This beach is beiDg ruined by
tLose er pie. I shall soon be without
nii.te ial fcr a single pictnre-frame."
Now Juauilla's labors, though Monte
rey wa-j still slumbering, were not un
oberved. A young man stood on the
bluff above the beach, looking down in
intenseat admiration at the barefooted
beauty bslow. He wore the loose gray
clothes of a tourist, and, from the sea
glasses that hung by his side, was evi
dently out early to observe the sunrise.
(.'lainVring down the rocks with a sure
fo;N 1 eao that indicated the exoeri-
need mountaineer, the stranger drew
near her, and watched, with an amused
expression on his handsome Saxon feat
tires, Juanilla'a contest with an envious
wavelet for th-; possession of a rare bit
of dips', " Bravo !" he cried, a?, return
ing from a successful rnshinto the spray,
sae carried off her prize.
The moss-gatherer turned quickly,
nnd blushed in the most charming man
rer imaginable as she hastily arranged
th- short petticoat which clang limp
sn 1 lovingly to her pretty ankles. The
stranger took off his hat and apologized
for his presence.
" Ah, senor," said the moss-gatherer,
"are you, too, looking for shells on my
beach? Well, jo ph.dl have some, as
you aro out so early. Gome, and I will
fihow you where tho tide has thrown
them np." And quite recovered from
her first embarrassment, she beckoned
bitu to follow her over the rocks. John
Thrope, fresh from tho London drawing-rooms,
and in search of a health
br.-ken down by the dissipations of a
I.-tndon hio, mentally decided that tbis
v-as the most delightful adventnro he
had mot with picco he had shook the
dnut of Iirnid etr.'t-t from his feet. He
followed her, aud when after an hour's
scramble with this daughter of the
coast he returned, wet and weary, to the
hotel, ho made tin entry in his diary
that his morning's lesson in eonchology
was more interesting than any he had
ever beard irom the lips of his Oxford
professor. And Juanilla averred to her
self it was a pity thh young English
man, who said such odd things in such
a niee way, fhould have such pale
checks, and get so tired from the exer
cise that only refreshed her from the
labors of tho day. That afternoon, as
Ler deft fingers wove the mosses into
t.istefid patterns, her father's voice sum
mon od Ler to tho veranda.
"There is a stranger here, Juanilla,
wh 'would like to see our pictnre-fraui-
s. Quick, my daughter, and show
th gentleman what we have for sale."
Mr John Thorpe bought almost tho
entire ftock, and then asked permission
to viwit the garden.
" This is my pet," said Jnanilla, gen
tly lifting the blossom of a tiny moss
r.se bush, " but it is very sickly, senor,
and I fear this will be its last winter.
Come, you shall have a bnd, as you
bought my pictnre-frames. Poor thing t
the northerly winds will kill it."
The sands had, after this morning, a
grand attraction for Thrope. He had
never mot a nature so fresh and brim
ming with vitality as this poor whaler's
daughter. Tho sa, and the woods, and
llio 'lowers had beca her instructors,
um frora tJieuo she had caught as un
r
By EORSLEY BBOS.' &
tutored poetry which found vent in odd
ideas and sympathies. A shell was to
her a beanty; a fragment of moss,
messenger from the deep-sea forests,
where unknown sea-flowers bloom and
die forever remote from human eyes,
lie was astonished at himself. Women
bored Him, had always bored him ; but
here was this water-nymph, who had
never read a book in her life for the
alphabet was to her an unexplored mys-
wno coma not, discourse of noli-
tics, the poets, or the magazines, work
ing ner way into nis indolent nature,
and quickening him to exchange t hono-ht
for thought, until he felt the poverty of
his book-cultnre as compared with an
intelligence framed and polished by
Mother Nature herself. Her mind was
a white page, free from the very shadow
oi woraiy grossness.
One eve ang. as Thorpe sat on the
porch, listening to the whaler's recitals
of his exciting lagoon adventures and
watching Juanilla's weaving fingers, a
opamara mtea tne garden-gate latch,
ana was greeted warmly by the whaler,
" We have heard 'rom Pancho," said
the new-comer. " He has done well in
the lower bays, and as soon as he can
will ship up over 500 barrels."
" Good !" said the whaler ; 500 bar
rels! Think of that, Juanilla. That
will buy you a fine wedding-gown, my
aangnter.
Thorpe f tar ted, stung by a thought
which for the moment sent the blood in
a cold current to his heart, and glanced
at J uaniua with a great fear in his eyes.
which, in spite of his efforts, he could
naruiy conceal.
She simply answered : ' I am glad
that Pancho has been lucky. Poor fel
low ! he has been a long time away,
Thorpe arose, and, bidding them an
abrupt good evening, walked rapidly to
ward the sands. " Aly Ood 1 said he,
aloud, " what have I been doing ? Am
1 dreaming ? This is terrible terrible,
It can't be possible that I love this
daughter of a wretched panper fisher
man ; but by heaven I aud he struck
his forehead with his clenched hand
"this is jealousy, so sure as there is
such a passion ; and if the intense con
centration of all feeling, an absorption
of one's self into another, be love, then
I, silly fool that I am, love this panper
curse me !" For an hour he paced np
and down the cliff overlooking the
sands where he had first met his siren,
and reflected bitterly on all the folly of
his unfortunate attachment. Marry her
he could not. IN ay, even if he decided
to marry her, he did not believe she
loved him, and he knew, or thought he
knew, enough of her character to feel
assured that his wealth and position
would not influence her one dot. But
who was this Pancho? no doubt her
betrothed, yet she had never mentioned
his name. Still, her idiotic old father
spoke of a wedding-gown. Yes, Pancho
may the devil drown him ! had gone
whaling to defray themarriage expenses.
But what did all this concern him this
episode in the life of a poor fisherman's
daughter ? He felt it concerned him too
much ; and, full of anger, love, and
perplexity, Thorpe sought his lodging.
Long before dawn next morning he
was on the sands, awaiting impatiently
the arrival of Juanilla. And when at
last she Btood on the cliff from which he
had seen her first, the quick heart-beat
and the joy that flashed him were addi
tional alarming convictions of the inten
sity of his passion. He could not, for
the life of him, mention the incident of
the previous evening until they had
walked some distance along the beach.
Jnanilla stood barefooted at the edge of
tho tide, now turning round with a
merry laugh when the incoming wave
splashed up to her knees, and again
shouting with delight when a more than
usually rare moss was thrown up.
Thorpe sat on a rock, and watched her
moodily.
"Juanilla, come her for a moment.'
" O, senor, here is a beauty, the pret
tiest bit I have ciught in a week. Bnt
why do vou look so grave this morn
ing?" and she took a seat beside him.
Thorpe took her hand in his own, and
looked down into his brown eyes. The
clasp of those tiny fingers thrilled him.
She seemed to recognize the passion in
his gaze, for she turnad to the bay where
the fisherman s skiffs were lying at an
chor.
"Juanilla, when is your wedding-
gown to be ready?
She turned to him a white, startled
face, trembled, and the great tears dim
med her eyes, but she was silent. And
then all Thorpe's self-possession forsook
him. He took her iu bis arms and pres
sed her to his heart. He called heaven
and earth to witness, that, were she
queen, he could not be prouder of her :
they should be married at once by the
padre, and sail with her father in the
next vessel for his English home. Did
she love him ?
Jnanilla leaned her head over his hand
and kissed it. "Senor," she said, sim
ply, " I love you ; bnt we were betroth
ed from onr cradle. It was his mother's
dying wish that we should be married,
and my father swore it. An oath can
not be broken. Good-by, and the white
saints bless yon ! O, my love my love
good by !" She tore herself from his
arms, bounded up the rocks, and was
out of sight in a moment.
Thorpe walked up and downtheeands.
and raved like a madman. He wept and
moaned, and kissed over and over again
tho hand her Jips had caressed. And
then the storm was succeeded by an in
tense sorrow. He walked to the woods,
and laid until evening under the pines.
In a week, Pancho's ship came in.
It was JnanilK's wedding morning.
Tho poor moss-gatherer was fearfully
changed. Kind neighbors said that
anxiety for her netrsthed had stolen
the roses from her cheeks ; bnt the
stalwart young whaler was shocked at
the coldness with which his promised
bride received his caresses. The wed
ding procession moved to the church,
l'ancho gay and happy, and Jnanilla s
faco as pale as the white wedding-gown
sho wore. Tho vows were exchanged.
and the gray-headed priest blepsed tho
married pair. And then they returned
to tho whaler's cottage, the guitars were
touched, and Pancho led out his lovely
bride in a Spanish dance. Thev had
scarcely taken a step, when a cry from
the beach brought everybody to the
porch. A boy was seen standing on the
blnff, shouting wildly :
" Down t tho boats ! the Lnglieh
man is drowning ! To the boats, or he
will be lost !"
Before the wedding throng fully com
prehended the alarm, a white figure
burst from their midst. Like the wind
she dashed down to the bluff, then over
the rocks, now lashed by the angry
waves, for the tide was high and a strong
north-wester blowing. At her feet
alive, yet not struggling at all with the
breakers lay Thorpe, his face full of
the agony of death. Juanilla sprung
from the rock with a wild shriek, and
her arras enoircled the drowning man.
And then, before even her husband
could reaoo the cliff, a mighty wave
came and drew them both far out into
its depths. An hour afterward, the sea
gave up its dead. Tho arms of the
bride etili encircled her lover, and one
of his was elapsed in the rigidity of
death about her neck, and upon his face
was a snile as of on content. They
were buried, side by side, in the eea
waahed grave-yard, under the shadow of
oaks in whose branches the doves at
antumn-time cooed through the long
gloamings, as if in sympathy with their
old, old story. And the tides ebbed and
flowed, and the seasons changed, and
lovers laid flower offerings on the graves
of the two so lovely to each other in
life, and in death so undivided.
Don't swear. Take a flat-iron to
puhnd your stove-pipe with.
J
FIGUEES.
ENGLISH COURTSHIP.
IU Various Feature iu the Different
Rank! of Society.
In Scotland it is difficult for a man to
diaw the line between courtship and
connubial condition. That which in the
Englishman is but a flirtation, would
become in the Scotchman rank raatri
mony. most people in Scotland are
married, but they are not aware of the
fact, as Monsieur Jordon did not know
tbat he had been talking prose all his
me ; tne distinction is drawn when
they do become aware, and then the
marriage is avowed. In Walea, court
' ship takes a material form among the
humbler classes at least and resolves
itself into what we call romping. In
England, there aro different ways of do
ing the same thing. When Lady Clara
vere de vere is a pretendu in her own
ranks of life (and she has not always
trifled with the "foolish yoeman" of
Mr. Tennysoi spoem),the arrangements
between the pair are conducted with
reference to a certain degree of eti
quette, but etiquette does not rule en
tirely, and the Lady Claras have the
same tendencies to make the most of the
situation as ladies and gentleman who
are not quite her equal in rank. She is
not restrained to the extent that she
would be in France ; and it is hard if,
in the course of walks, drives and
dances, croquet, cantering, exhibition
seeing, picmcmg, and ail the various
incidents of town and country life, the
pair do not manage to meet some seven
days in the week, and give the chape
rone now and then the go-by. In the
lower grades of society it may be sup
posed that courtship is equally delight
ful, but appearances are decidedly
against There is nothing approach
ing restraint in the code of etiquette
here. When Miss Jemima Higgs has
" her yonng man," and he ia on such
terms with her family as not to be
tnrned out of doors, he may go to the
house and take her out whenever he
pleases, and no one dreams of interfer
ing. Jemima is probably a presentable
style of girl girls of other classes are
far more so than they were, and eep6
cially dress better than they did, albeit
in rather an exaecrerated style but her
betrothed is decidedly rough. See him
when he comes to take her out to walk
in Battersea or Victoria park, or it may
be to go by steamer to Greenwich. He
is far from being on a par with her, either
in manners or attire, especially if the
latter be his holiday costume, lie is
tolen ly sure, too, to have a pipe or a
cigar in his mouth ; for this appendage,
among certain classes of young men,
seems to bo considered a necessary part
of full dress. His talk is slang, and
not over refined. The girl goes off gay
ly with him, but one cannot help won
dering at her taste, and the question in
evil ably occurs Of what do they talk
when alone? She has read a few nov
els, and picked up a certain vocabulary
of sentiment ; but ho car net have an
idea on this head, and his range of sub
jects must be a very narrow one very
different from the world of beautiful
fancits open to Lady Clara Ver9 de
Vere and tho young " lord-lover" who
pays his horaago to her shrine. It is
not to be supposed that humble station
and want of culture prevent people
from loving as deeply as our aristocratic
friends. The late Robert Grougb, in
a poetical version of a tale from Boc
caccio, writes very promiy of a pair ot
lovers who sat together saying nothing,
but simply " engaged in loving," which,
the writer adds, "is quite an occupa
tion, 1 assure you, m its way. Jemima
and her " yonnsr raan" doubtless bring
all their tender instincts towards the
" occupation" in question, but it is sad
to think she wiil express her regret at
having to sit opposite to him in the 'bus
on their way home, and that when his
words take an affectionate form they
will connect her with the description of
" old gal." However, I am hero writ
ing of miserable cockneys. Village
courtships must bo very different affairs,
or poets would not have glorified them
as they have done, from the earliest
period to the present time. I hnve my
suspicions that rnstio lovers ar not al
ways Damons and Phillises ; but they
are not likely to be without a certain rural
simplicity, and at least free from the
slang of the town. The saddest kind of
courtships must be those of couples
who do not care much about one an
other. It is very easy to make people
believe you love them less than you do,
but very difficult to make them believe
that you love them more.
The Open Polar Ssa.
Dr. Hays, in a letter on the Austrian
Polar exptdition, says : The highway
to the Pole was, i believe, open to
Capt. Hall, and had he lived I believe
he would have reached it. I believe
the same thing could have been done
by my old commander. Dr. Kane, in
AugUBt, 1853, and by myself in 1SC0,
had either of us been blessed with
steam; and I believe, as I have re
peatedly asserted publioly, that the
Sound can be navigated with steam
power any year ; end in proof of this
we may cite the fart that Capt. Hall
experienced no difficulty whatever in
the Polaris, which, as if it were but a
pleasure voyage, steamed in six days
from Upernavik to the highest point
ever reached by any vessel : and even
the land he sighted beyond must, I
think, hav been something further
north than 83 deg., which seems to have
been the northern most point Capo
Vienna sn by the gallant officers of
the Tegetthoff. For in 1861 I traced
the outline of the land, which I named
Cape Union, on the west side (imper
fectly traced, it is tru?, owing to the
great diuiculties of the situation), to
lat. 82 deg., 45 seconds, and Capt. Hall
must have eeen land beyond this. Dr.
Hays adds : As for myself, my going
back to the scene of my old contests
has been, as those interested iu Arctic
exploration well know, merely a ques
tion of money. That forthcoming, I
shall loso no time in once more lead
ing an expedition into Smith Sound.
Sunset in the North.
Major Batler, in his "Wild North
Land," gives the following pictnre of
sunset in the north land: "He who
rides for months through the vast sol
itudes sees during the hours of his
daily travel an unbroken panorama of
distance. The seasons come and go ;
grass grows and flowers die ; tho fire
leaps with tiger bounds along the earth;
the snow lies still and quiet over hill
and lake ; the rivers rise and fall ; but
the rigid features of the wilderness rest
unchanged. Lonely, silent and impas
sive ; heedless of man, season or time,
the might of the Infinite seems to brood
over it, and only in the hours of day
and night a moment comes when this
impressive veil is drawn from its feat
ures, aud the eye of the wanderer catch
es a glimpse of the sunken soul of tho
wilderness it is the moment which fol
lows the sunset. Then a deep stillness
steals ever the earth ; colors of wond
rous hue riso and spread along the west
ern horizon. In a deep sea of emerald
and a range of fifty shades, mingled
and interwoven together, rose-colored
isles float, anchored to great golden
threads, while far away, seemingly
above and beyond all, ono broad flash
of crimson light, the parting sun's last
gift, reddens upwards to the zenith."
A Btory is told of a San Francisco
woman who was ia the habit of receiv
ing frequent castigations xt the hands
of her husband, and who one day read
the bible story of Samson and Delilah.
W hen next her consort was prone in
sleep she sheared him so completely
that every spear of hair disappeared
from his face and head. Bousing from
Lis 6l umber lite a giant refreshed, h
COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY,
speedily comprehended the situation
and reached for her. bach a caressing
as she then received she never dreamed
of before. She did not even have the
usual grip on him. He was fined, but
she declared her utter disbelief in those
bible yarns
A Costume to Keep Afloat.
A Paris correspondent says : " An in
genious philanthropist of this city has
just invented a new apparatus for as
sisting shipwrecked persons iu main
taining themt-elves above water. The
public trial of this apparatus took place
a few cays ago, and proved entirely suc
cessful. Two river steamboats were
provided by the smiling, enthusiastic,
white-headed philanthropist, and con
veyed a numerous company of friends,
people connected with the press, the
clubs, the army and navy, and a sprink
ling of members of the legislative as
sembly, to the Billancourt Basin, just
beyond Asineres. The new apparatus
consists of a costume, called by its in
ventor the 'Natator ; ' it goes from the
neck to the knees, fitting close to the
body, but susceptible of being worn
over other clothing, if time be wanting
for divesting oneself of one's ordinary
apparel. From the armpits to the hips
the thing is double, forming the case of
an india-rubber tube that winds rouna
and round the body. The upper end of
this tube has a brass stopcock, through
which the wearer blows in air with his
lips, the process requiring only a few
seconds, and the volume of air thus in
troduced amply sufficing to prevent the
heaviest people from sinking. If it be
desired to dive, the wearer lets out th
air by merely opening the stopcock,
The 'Natator' will thus serve to keep the
shipwrecked from sinking, and enable
the heroic preservers of human life to
reach those who, though kept afloat by
it, are unable to swim. The wearers of
the 'Natator,' some of whom wore it
under their clothes, some over them
while others had undressed and wore
nothing else, floated about the steamers
for an hour, now seeming to stand erect
in the water, now lying upon it, some
smoking a cigar, others reading a news
paper or eating bisouits and sandwiches
from a little water-proof bag attached
to tho costume, laughing, talking, and
apparently enioying their novel position,
A shower happening to come, one of the
swimmers opened and hoisted an um
brella, under which he continued his
watery promenade, to the great amuse
ment of the spectators."
The Great Salt Lake.
A Salt Lake City correspondent of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean says : " There
seems to be a general impression among
strangers that the city of Salt Lake is
located on the margin of the great Salt
lake, and the tourist on his arrival here
ls .Burprised and disappointed to find
that it 13 not. I he popular visiting
place on the lake is what is called Black
Rock, lying directly west twenty miles
distant from this city, on the old over
land mail road going towards California.
It is a most interesting spot to visit, and
it is very strange that out of the many
who travel across the continent, desirous
of seeing everything of interest, there
are so few who will take the time and
trouble to see this most wonderful und
beautiful sheet of water. The size of
the lake is about eighty miles from east
to west, and about one hundred miles
from north to south. It is the great
reservoir for all the waters that empty
into the surrounding valleys, without
any known outlet, except what the gen
tle rays of the summer sun draws up to
the cloudy strata of the heavens. The
water is exceedingly salty, more so than
any body of water in the world, and its
buoyancy is fully 100 per cent, more
than that of the ocean. In the crudest
manner the Mormons make a pail of salt
from three pails of water, and the buoy
ancy is very perceptible in bathing,
when the ordinary swimmer finds he
can float as easily and securely as walk
ing on tire 'sure and hrm-set earth.
Sinking is impossible. The water in
the lake is gradually rising, and some
estimates have put it at ten inches each
year; but no means have been taken to
measure it until about two months
since, when a granite monument was
erected at Black Rock, a short distance
fro - the shore. The lake as a thing of
beauty is almost unsurpassed. The
water at times is of the deepest green ;
at others of the purest blue ; and, vary
ing from the shallow to the deep water,
from the lightest to the darkest shades,
and at4all times like the grand old
ocean. lhe seagull and the pelican
scale just overhead, riding gracefully
the waves upon its smooth or rolling
surface."
Sherman on the Army.
The Army and Navy Journal contains
an article by Gen. Sherman on " The
Military Lessons of the War." Al
though printed separately, it is really
the final chapter of a history of the war
which will be publish after the author's
death.
Gen. McClellan wishes to remodel our
army after that of Germany. Gen.
Sherman, on the contrary, sees some
things to shun in the German system.
Thus he dislikes their large companies
and their mounted captainB. He would
still retain the present standard of 100
men to the company, but would place
twelve companies in each infantry regi
ment, an l so mako the numerical
strength of a regiment in the infantry,
artillery, or cavelry tho same. Three
such regiments would compose a brig
ade, three brigades a division, and three
divisions a corps. The corps is tho mil
itary unit for grand campaigns nd bat
ties. An infantry corps should have
attached to it a brigade of cavalry and
six batteries of artillery. It would then
contain an effective force of thirty thou
sand men.
After laying down this simple plan of
organization by threes, Gen. Sherman
discusses the great difficulty of the civil
war, which will, he thinks, be the great
difficulty herca:ter. It is the supply of
soldiers. Ke rejects the bounty system
as utterly bad. It would be much bet
ter, he thinks, to pay men 30 or S50 a
month to serve than to pay them $000
or $1,000 to consent to serve. All our
expedients failed. The write says :
" The German method of recruitment
is simply perfect, and there is no rea
son why we should not follow it sub
6tantiaily." Public opinion will scarcely
indorse this sweeping statement. The
German system ia simply the impress
ment of every poor and illiterate man
for three years, and of every educated
and wealthy man for one year of active
service. Both classes are afterwards
liable to serve in event of war for seven
years more. No such system can be
forced upon Americans. Chicago Trib,
Growth of London.
Rev. Dr. Cnyler writes: "Say what
wo may of the rapid growth of our
American towns, the monster strides of
the British Metropolis always over
whelm me. London, now contains
3.000.000 people! It almost equals
Paris, New York and Brooklyn com
bined into one. You can drive fifteen
miles on ono of its diameters. When,
in my college days, I once went out to
pay a visit to Joanna Bailie, the emi
nent anthoress, who lived on Hamp
stead Hill, I walked clear out of town
and over open fields. I am now staying
at the hospitable honse of our friend,
the Rev. Newman Hall, who resides on
the same Hampstead Hill, in the midst
of compactly built streets."
To come right down to business
and give faots, Buckckin Joseph an
nounces that he has killed eixty-one
Iudiats with his own hand?. It may
be true it could be true,
The New York Fashions of the Ren
naisance.
First, they are mere beady than ever,
and, secondly, whsi Portia said " the
quality of mercy should not be strain
ed," it is a pity sha had not included
dress skirts. We -are actually tied up
and bandaged oysnesKimpynttle skirts
fashionable tnis iau. w e get on very
well in a crowd, when the regulation step
11 ll .
is not more man wiree mones long, but
the curbstones here are, some of em,
five times that. And there are omni
buses whose first step eventuates iu the
vicinity of a short woman s bieast pin.
jnow, when one is securely settled in a
skirt like a bloated pantaloon leg, and
furthermore has side strings that tie that
skirt tightly behind to produce the un
wrinkled front so fashionable, she has
a feat before her to raise a foot before
her. Most ladies catch at tho door and
give a double-barreled elastic skip that
lands both feet on the step. There they
perch and trust ia Providence and the
passengers to pulj 'era in. Everything
is jetted, and evea into the silent city of
the dead go the beads and bugles, since
the last sweet thing a man .nd here
lately for his. mot" -in-law was to box
her in a robe of black patin fairly crust
ed with jet beads. (Very likely there
was a flat-iron in each pocket, but that
we didn't sea) That man had only the
week before told his wife he never felt
any thing like the weight of th bead
embroidery she wore. To an analytical
mind the chain of his meditation was
very clear.
Here in New York there are two dis
tinct types of fashionable women : tho
women who do and the women who
dare. The first chop dressmakers do
up the majority of our fashion-loving
ladies, but there are others who get
themselves up after outre fashion-plates,
and tremendous is the t ffdct. The staw
and felt hats are rather old-stylish in
shape, but when a woman faces the
turned-up front with pale bine, puts a
cluster of tea roses smsck in front, a
red breasted bird above that, and a
long-tailed plume beyond that, then
lashes this creation on the back of her
head, cocked at an angle of forty-five
degrees, then the deed is done.
Then th modistes put nice little
standing collars on dresses and slash
them open at the breast to show deli
cate laces and things. This fourth-
proof fashionable builds a silk fence
about her neck that towers heavenward,
lashes her beaded belt till her breakfast,
and any other affair she may chance to
contain, are collapsed like defective
flues. Then she hursts forth in revers
and plaitings and lace ruffles across the
breast till she's disproportioned as a rnf-
HaA T-ii rronn "Rnt rvnA nnnlrAr rlnAa aha
allow lier dress skirt; that's behind.
As this woman confronts you on the
street she has the appt aranoe of one
struggling with numberless spirit hands
to seek to detain her. .Everything,
from her hat to her boots, seems clawed
at and about to be torn from her by in
visible forces in the rear.
To be in the rampagingist fashion
this fall, put on lots of cardinal red and
ook wild. Mrs. Jsurnham m the &t,
Louis Jiejyublican.
The Working People of Paris.
Some interesting details about the
denizens of Paris, says the correspond
ent of the London Era, are fnrnished
by the indefatigable explorer, M. Max-
lme .Lm oamp. it appears, men, taat
even in this gay city there are no less
than 816,000 working people; one-half
of these are women a fact that proves
that the fair sex of Paris are not lazy,
The rag-picking profession has fallen
off since the commune, and now num
bers only 6,000. There are seven large
houses whoso commerce consists entire
ly in the purchase and sale of old pos
tage stamps. We have also 51 dealers
in false hair, and l.iotf barbers and hair
dressers, who ia 1872 sold no less than
102,900 kilograms or chignons a kilo
gram is eonal to two pounds. "This
article of modern toilette," says the
writer, " is becoming so diffioult to find
that agents have been sent out to China
to buy up the tails of the poor." Of
flower makers there are 3,000, and ow
ing to the imperial rage for violets, the
number of that political emblem sold
last year rose to six million. Tho em
ployers or patrons fagure at ey.lHJU, and
some idea o. their honorability may be
gathered from the fact that there were
only 1,802 bankruptcies and insolvencies
last year. Among the so-called liberal
professions are 1.878 learned and liter
ary men ; v.i'M sculptors, painters, and
actors of the latter U.U6S are Jadiep.
A touching fact among the sea of figures
is that, whereas the literary gentlemen
ve only 800 domestics, they supp"rt
by the work of their brain no less than
,128 persons, chiefly parents. Of doc
tors wo have 1.726. which is about one
to every thousand inhabitants. Behind
this medical army some 100 somnambu
ists, 561 midwives, 52H herborists, and
737 apothecaries. .Next, raris com
prises 16,226 landlords and M,brz re
tired tradesmen whose fortune, m the
majority of cases, is the result of early
perseverance, privation, and economy,
M. Maxime Du Camo contends that
there is not a city in the world where
the people work more than in Paris, in
pite of the 300.000 idlers an the boule
vards, the 180 concert cafes, the 238
public balls, the 25,000 wine shops and
the 7,226 billiard boards. The workmen
ere are paid once a fortnight, on the
Saturday. The week that follows is in
variably a dnll one ia the shops, since
the majority of the men pay their devo
tions to " St. Luadi" until their pock
ets become empty, and they are forced
return to the bench to repienisn
them. This is a fact which should be
borne in mind by those who indulge in
inviduous comparisons between the
French ouvrier and the English work
men. Is the South a Good Fruit Country?
If the question is intended to mean a
country abounding in good fruits, ve
must sadly aLSwer, no. Nothing as
tonishes the stranger more when travel
ing in the south, or on first settling
here, than the scarcity of good fruits ;
and the impression produced by the cir
cumstances, that the south is not a gw d
country for fruit, is confirmed by our
people themselves, and especially by
the farmers, who, with a few exceptions,
of course, will tell him that beyond
seedling peaches, Chickasaw plums and
scuppernong grapes, fruits don't do
well here. The few who have under
standing tried the experiment of rais
ing other and superior fruits, however,
know better.
We have shown again and again in
these pages and elsewhere, and demon
strated it in the field, that the south is
one of the best of all fruit countries,
and others have done the sarae. Will
not our readers all make up their minds
to plant at least a few fruit trees and
grape vines this fall and to take care
of them after they shall have been
planted? Do you, who are Patrons,
bear in mind, as you should, the in
junctions of the ritual of your order in
reference to planting fruits and flower6?
Rural.
From Surprise Valley, California,
comes the 6tory of an old fellow who
got very jealous because his wife went
to a ball with a good-looking fellow and
stayed out until broad daylight. The
old fellow went to a justice of the peace
and told his story, winding up with :
" I ant you to help me, for that ar
thing has been going on about long
enough." "Well," says the justice,
" you can write down to Yreka and see
if some of the lawyers can't get you a
divoroe." " Divorce l roared the angry
man, " who tho deuce watts a divorce ?"
AND
OCTOBER 23, 1874.
The justice began to get wrathy. " If
you den't want a divorce, what the
deuce brought you here?" "Why, I
want an injunction to stop further pro-
oeeumgs.
The Food of Primitive Man.
In the present state of research, the
earnest authentic, traces of man on
earth go no further back than the age
oi ice, bo caned, and the accompanying
or subsequent formation of the diluvium
or drift. The relics of man dating from
an earner epoch, the upper miocene
formation, that is, the middle of the
tertiary group, which are said to have
been found in France, are at least very
questionable. Bat there have been pre
served for us in cavern remains dating
irom ine ice age, which tells us of food
used bv man in those timen. Man then in.
herited Central Europe in company with
the reindeer, cave bear, and the mam
moth. He was exclusively a hunter and
nsner, as is snown by the bones of am
mala found in his cave dwellings. The
miocene formation, which abounded in
arboreal vegetation, had disappeared
aunng tne long period of the subse
quent pliocene formations, the climate
of Central Europe, meanwhile, having
gradually become colder.- Nature sup
plied no fruit for the food of man,
What food he got by hunting and fish
ing was precarious, and there were in
tervals of famine ; for fortune does not
always smile on the hunter, and the
beasts of the f ot est are not always equally
numerous. The too , too, was uniform.
and not altogether ad anted for man, fT
the flesh of wild animals lacks fat. The
man of those times had not enough of
tho heat producers in his food : and
that he felt this want, we learn from his
taste for tho marrow of bones. All the
long bones of animals that are found in
caved dwellings are cracked open
lengthwise, in order to get out the mar
row., ssow, this insufficient, uniform
food has its counterpart in the low
grade of culture whioh then prevailed,
as evidenced by the mode of life, the
weapons, and the tools. Man then
lived isolated, without social organiza
tion ; he dwelt in caverns, and his only
protection against cold was the skins of
animals ana the fire on the hearth. His
tools were of "tone. unpolished, un
adorned ; so rudely fashioned that only
tne eye of the connoisseur can recog
nize in them man s handiwork.
A Tyro's Experience Eating Macaroni,
A contributor to the Arcadian thus
describes his experience iu eating mac
aroni :
l know men who have been for years
under Italian tutorship in this city try
ing to learn how to swallow the food of
sunny Italy with ease and grace. But,
alter ail their efforts, they remind you
of an anaconda swallowing ins blanket.
I remember my own attempt not long
ago, in the company of aignors Muzio
and Strakosch. The delicious vernicu-
lar food came in coils one hundred feet
long. I stuck my knife into it, cut off a
section and swallowed it. Horror seized
upon my companions.
" Corpo di Bacbhi !" exclaimed Mu
zio. " Placidamenti ! fizz z ! dam !
It is sacre ! sacrileege !"
As for Strakosch, he was petrified
with grief and indignation. "Mein
Gott !" he exclaimed finally, "you muss
not coot him !
I leaned back in despair, looked at
the interminable food, and watched my
friends dispose of it. They reeled it on
their forks, put one end of the glutin
ous cable in their mouths, and paid l
out in their stomach without a bite.
A he operation was a beautiful one.
It was not so much like eating as it was
like taking in a stern line ; but it was a
marvol of skill. I tried it. I felt the
tender serpent sliding greasily down
my throat and coib'ng into my stomach
in contentric rings. The sensation mad
denea me. it seemed to me that i was
eating a stomach pump. A horrible
idea seized me. What if I should cough
or choke with tne line only half plaved
out part of it in ray stomach and part
of it on my plate and I anchored thus?
I knew that not an Italian would dare
to lift a sacrilegious knife and cut me
loose. Strakosch, 1 knew, would dance
around me and warn everybody not to
coot him.
I do not hesitate to say that when I
could stand it no longer I fled, paying
out as I vanished, and leaving a wake of
macaroni not unlike the tail of a comet.
Success.
To succeed is not so much to do many
things well as to do nothing ill. One
ridiculous failure will cast suspicion
on all we claim to be able to accomplish.
The very calm still waiting and watch
ing, and ever refusing to display one s
self at a disadvantage, is itself not the
leaRt impressive of qualities. The op
ponent who cannot be tempted to lunge.
until by careful anrt progressive expert
mpnt lift lias felt that his cronnd'is snre.
that arm, sword, and volition go well
together, has inspired a drea 1 by the
very deliberation and method of his at
tack that goes far to make it successful,
Not at all that enterprise is to be con
temned let us go forward ; but going,
try Btep by step, cast aside every weight,
ware every stumbling-blcck. It is so
easy to stumble, so easy to disappear in
the mud of some ditch which, not to
speak of the danger, is so very ridicu
lous a thing that it pays to look out.
We shall fand that, even doing our
best, we shall have but little to boast
of in the shape of success : while care
lessness or rashness is almost certain
rum. To know " no sucn word as iau
is to fail. Let us know it, never lose
sight of it : it is a tireless foe ; it has
slain its thousands men greater and
prouder than we ; it is a Brutus who
has stabbed many Csosars on the very
throne-foot of their trmmph. lie ware
the ides of March! And as we all
have our' ides, though we know not
when they come, let us so live as if
they were always present. Overland
Monthly.
Who Wrote Shakespeare ?
Sivs a correspondent of the Richmond
Enauirer : Hamlet overheard Julius
Caosar tell King Lear, on the Twelfth
Night after the Tempest, that Anthony
and Cleopatra had told Coriolanus that
Two Gentlemen of Verona were the
authors of Shakespeare's plays. Lear
said : You make take it As lou Like It,
but I don't believe it. for I heard Ro
meo and Juliet say that their Love s
LaborwasLost whenTroilus and Cresida
stole the Comedy of Errors and Bold it
to the Merchant of Venice. Timon of
Athens and Cymbeline were parties to
the theft, and after drinking Measure
for Measure with the Merry Wives of
Windsor, told King John all about it.
Richard III. (a competent critic) 6aid
Bacon could not write even a Winter's
Tale, and Henry VIII. says that settles
it ; so, why mako so Much Ado About
Nothing. Othello was busy dealing a
five-cent game of faro to the IV., V.
and VI. Henrys, and the only remarks
made by them were an occasional
Prindle, don't turn ; hold on," and a
few other forcible remarks of a cursory
nature and as Richard II. was absent
Taming the Shrew, I could get no
farther evidence as to who wrote Shake
speare. But All's Well that Ends Well.
The toilettes worn by Miss Clara
Morris and Miss Charlotte Thompson
in "the Sphinx" are stunning. Miss
Morris changes from a deep corn color
ed silk worn with an elegant overdress
of velvety black lace to a charming
dress of pistache green silk ; and Miss
Thompson wears in succession a laven-der-hued
robe of French origin and an
exquisite toilette of amber silk, pro
fusely decorated with f prays ot erimnou
roses.
Right and Sperm Whales.
The sperm whale ia an habitue of the
deep water, seldom found on sound
ings, and feeding on creatures of great
size in the profoundest depths of the
ocean. The right while frequents the
bays and shoal waters of the coasts. It
feeds on minute shrimps and mollusks
which float upon the surface of the sea
or at moderate depths. In the sperm
whale the male is much larger than the
female ; in the right whale the female
attains the greatest bulk. In the sperm
whale the upper jaw, case and junk
form the great portion of the head, the
under iaw being furnished with ivory
teeth. In the right whale the lower
jaw. with its great lips and tongue, is
greatly disproportioned to the slender
upper iaw. which is furnished with the
elastio slabs of whalebone. In the
sperm whale the great respiratory canal
is elongated, and terminates in a single
spout-hole a little to one side on the
extreme end of the head. In the right
whale this canal branches into two
channels, which terminate in two spout
holes about eighteen feet back from the
nose.
The speim whale is dangerous at
either end, but the motions of its flakes
are limited as compared with the right
whale. Its blows are delivered verti
cally, and when it strikes right or left
the blow is performed by a rolling of
the body. To compensate for this
rigidity of the flaket, it is possessed of
admirable skill in fencing with the iaw.
The most fatal accidents ia boats arise
from this weapon. The motion of the
jaw is quick, and its sweep tremendous.
In a large whale rolling, with the jaw
distended, the sweep may include
circle of forty feet, and woe be to the
boat whose bottom receives the upward
cut, while certain death follows the re
ception of the downward blow I Thus
it is possible for two boats placed forty
feet apart to be broken by the same
blow from the jaw of a rolling sperm
whale. The right whale, on the con
traty, is comparativrly harmless with
the head ; but is possessed of great lat
eral reach with the flukes, sweeping, as
whalemen express it. from eye to eye,
To judge from external evidence, the
sperm whale is mnch the more com
bative of the t wo. No 1 arge bull whale of
this species is taken whose great square
head is not scarred and furrowed with
marks of the teeth of rival bulls, and
often the shattered teeth and broken
or distorted jaws attest the fierceness of
their combats. The right whale, how
ever, is incapable of more than severely
paddling its enemy with its tail. The
sperm whale, of the two, is more
regular and much longer in its periods
of spouting and of remaining under
water. It will spout sixty or seventy
times and remain under water an hour
or more, even when not pursued. The
right whale spouts twelve or fifteen
times, perhaps, and then descends for
a short period, uoth turn nnkes, or
lift the tail perpendicularly in the air,
when they go down. The oil of the
one is rich in spermaceti ; the other
furnishes the lower prioed train oil.
Thoughts for Saturday Night.
The soul knows no prison.
Rage is mental imbecility.
To revenge is no valor, but to bear.
Remorse is the echo of a lost mother.
Man's the circled oak; woman tho
indolence
aud
stupidity
are first
cousins.
There is mueio m all things if men
had ears.
Magnificent promises are always to be
suspected.
Virtue is the beauty, aud vice the de
formity of the soul.
An acre ot periormance is worm a
whole world of promise.
There is a frightful interval between
the seed and the timber.
There is not a string attuned to mirth
but has its chord of melancholy.
If a man empties his puree into his
head, no one can take it away from him.
Purposes, like eggs, unless they are
hatched into action, will run into rot
tenness. Measure not men by Sundays, with
out regarding what they do all the week
after.
All the rarest hues of human life take
radiance and aro rainbowed out in tears.
The worth of a state, in the long run,
is the worth of the individuals compos-
in?"- . ......
1 am sorry to see now sman a piece oi
religion will make a cloak. &ir. nil-
nam Waller.
The chains of habit are generally too
small to be felt till they are too strong
to be broken.
While the world lasts, the sun will
gild the mountain-tops before it shines
upon the plain.
Pitch a luckv man into the Nile, says
the Arabian proverb, and ho will come
up with a hsh in his mouth
As riches and favor forsake a man, we
discover him to be a fool ; but noboby
could find it out in his propperity.
True religion is the poetry ot the
heart : it has enchantments useful to
our manner ; it gives us both happi
ness and virtue.
If a man is not rising upwards to be
an angel, depend upon it ho is sinking
downward to the devil. He cannot stop
at the beast.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed
in a closet. Habits are formed by acts
of reason in a persevering struggle
through temptation.
I hate in ratitude in a man more man
lying, vaisness, babbling, drunkenness,
or taint of vice wnose strong corrup
tion inhabits onr frail blood. Niakr
tpeare.
Anatomy of the Porpoise. .
Mr. Frank Buckland. having dissected
a porpoise, gives some interesting infor
mation on the structure of that animal.
In the matter of bowels it is well pro
vided for, the specimen examined hav
ing 62 feet 2 inches of intestine. The
stomach was so complicated tbat it
could not be made out by ordinary dis
section. To get round the difficulty,
Mr. Buckland hung it up by the oeso
phagus, and filled it with plaster of par
is, of which nearly a pailfn! .waa re
quired before the organ was fully dis
tended. It was then found that tho por
poise has two stomachs one in which
the prey is kept, and the other in which
it is digested. A careful section of the
head showed the blow-hole to be a most
complicated mechanism. The porpoise,
being a pure mammal, has a four cavi
tied heart, and a pair of lungs. Now,
nature has ordained that he shall live in
the sea ; the problem is, how to
keep water out of the lnngs. In the
first place, his nose is guarded by a
valve placed on the top of his head, and
when the porpoise breathes he comes to
the surface, and takes a deep inspira
tion. Not a drop of water ever gets in.
Bat how does he work his valve, and
keep the water oat of his lungs, when
he is asleep? The answer to this ques
tion cannot be given yet. Mr. Back
land intends to study the subject when
next he haa a live porpoise at the Brigh
ton aquarium.
According to Law and Evidence.
A singular case which occurred many
years ago in one of the rural towns of
Vermont is thus described by the Rat-
land (Vermont) Herald : "Capt. A.
shot and killed a dog belonging to his
neighbor, Smith. This act was charged
upon one G., and a suit was brought
against him to recover damages. The
case was tried by a justice of the peace,
and uapi. a. ear, as a juror, circum
stantial evidence was presented to prove
that G. shot tho dog, and the jury
agreed to return a verdiot of " guilty.
Several years after the trial Capt. A. ac
VOL. XX. NO. 15.
knowledged that he killed the dog, and
defended .is course in rendering a ver
dict of " guilty" against G. on the
ground that his juror's oath required
hint to decide the case according to law
and evidence, and it was fairly proved,
he paid, that G. killed the dog."
The Coolest Robbery on Record.
The New Haven Register records the
following : Policeman Badger, of the
tenth station, had a bit of experience
the other night which he is not fond of
talking about. It was past midnight,
as he was leisurely paching his beat
throagh Jessop street, and as he came
opposite to Drafton Fogg's jewelry
store he observed gleams of light
throagh the chinks of the shutters, and
he rapped at the door.
"Is that you, policeman?" asked a
voice within.
" Yes," answered Badger.
" Well, it's only me ; it's all right ;
kind o chilly out, isn't it?"
" Yes."
"Thought so. I was just fixing the
fire good night."
Badger taid " Good night," and par-
sued his way.
An hour afterward Badger passed
through Jessop street again, and again
he saw the light in the jewelry store.
It didn't look right, and he banged at
the dot r loudly.
" Hello 1" cried the voice within. " Is
it yon, policeman ?"
" Yes."
"All right. Won't you oome in and
warm you ? It won't hurt anything for
you to slip from your beat a few min
utes." The door opened, and policeman Bad
ger entered, and he found the inmate
to be a very gentlemanly-looking man,
in a linen duster.
" Corao right up to the stove, police
man. Excuse me for a moment."
The man took the ash-pan from the
bottom of the stove and carried it down
into the cellar, and emptied it, and
when he had returned and wiped his
hands he said with a smile :
"Chilly night, isn't?"
"Yes."
"Chilly outside, and dull inside.
f Another smile. 1 New goods for the
fall trade, and have to keep our eves
open. Lonesome work, this watching
all night : but we manage to find a bit
of comfort in this. Won't you join me
in a tip? You will find it the pure
tting."..
And the raan produced a black bottle
and a tumbler.
Policeman Badger partook, and hav
ing wiped his lips and given his fingers
a new warming, he left the store and
resumed his beat, satisfied that all was
right at Drayton & Fogg a.
Bat the morning brought a new reve
lation. Drayton & Fogg's store had
been robbed during the night of $6,000
worth of watches and jewelry, and al
though Policeman Badger carries in his
mind a complete deguerreotype of the
robber, the adroit rascal has not yet
been found.
French " Frugality."
A Paris correspondent says : " I have
heard a very odd, yet apparently cor
rect, reason given for the non-success of
soda-water as a beverage in this city.
One of the leading English druggists
here was recently asked why he did not
establish a soda-water fountain in lus
store. It would not take with tho Pa
nsians. was his answer: "n a french
man spends ten cents for a drink he
wants a seat, a little table and a sight of
the daily papers with it, and he passes
two boars in si ping it. A beverage,
therefore, which must be qnaffed at
once will not suit their habits or their
tastes ; they would consider themselves
robbed if they paid half a franc for the
drink alone. Another amusirg exm
plific ition of the peculiarly thrifty hab
its of the French was also made known
to me recently. An American came out
here some years ago and established an
American bar near the Grand Hotel,
conneotmg with it that decidedly Amer
ican institution, a free lunch, fie was
soon obliged to do away with tnat por
tion of the programme, however, for
finding that there was a place where
good food could be bad for nothing,
large numbers of Frenchmen of the bet
ter classes, including many of the mom
bers of the fashionable jockey club,
came there to enjoy the eatables, bnt
never ordered one sou s worth of drink
therewith. They considered it perfectly
the thing' to take the proprietor's lunch
without compens ting him in any man
ner, direct or indirect.
Taking it Coolly.
One o' them fellers," remarked
Bijah. as he handed out Tom Luding-
ton. a young man charged with vagrancy.
So you haven t anything to do, en i
asked the court.
" Nothing," mournfully answered the
prisoner.
"Oat of work no home and your
cash so short that you couldn't get into
a woman s rights convention, eh con
tinned his honor.
" You've struck it, pardner," answer
ed the prisoner with a smile.
" Yes, and now I'll strike you, Mr.
Ludington. I'm down on loafers and
vags. and I'm going to boost you for a
sixty if it tears the desk down. You'll
have something to do np there besides
sitting on a box in an alley and whistling
Come, Love, Come. And when day
fades into night, and the remainder
of the world retires to rest, you'll have
a bed and some covering. They'll hire
some one to hoe that dirt off of yon,
cut your hair, dig out your nails, and
when you come out you will be so dis
guised that your own mother will think
yon are some English duke, over here
to hunt dncks and bay gas stock."
The prisoner said he was willing to
go up, and if the institution pleased
him as well as he thought it wonld he
might oome back for a longer sentence.
Origin of Italian Opera.
About the year 1494 three young men,
natives of Florence, who were exceed
ingly intimate and who possessed many
artistic tastes in common, conceived the
idea of restoring the ancient Grecian
lyric style of declamation. They per
suaded the celebrated poet Rinucci to
compose the words of a drama the sub
ject of which was the story of Daphne,
and this was set to musio by Pesl, the
most celebrated composer of the fif
teenth oentnry. Count Corsi. an ad
mirable musiciao, aided him in the un
dertaking, and th first performance of
the first onera waa rtlaved in the nalaoe
of this gentleman. The actors ana sing
ers were friends of the author, and he
himself took one of the parts. The or
chestra of this first opera was composed
of four violins, a cythra, a harp, and a
violincello. There were no airs in this
composition, and it consisted entirely
of recitatives accompanied by fine har
monies, which were, however, judged
by the great critic Ruooellai to be very
monotonous and tedious.
Robinson Crusoe Again.
The popular error that Robinson Cru
soe's island was Joan Fernandez, off the
west coast of South America when the
book expressly declares that it was near
the mouth of the river Orinoco, on the
northwest coast of that continent, and
all the account of the course of the ves
sel before reaching it plainly mentions
places in the Atlantic ocean, and none
whatever in the Pacitlo has been care
fully explained ; but, as the farmer said
of Daniel Webster, it " ain't dead yet.'
It originated, of courso, in the story
that Dcfo stole his narrative from Alex
ander Selkirk, who dia pass some time
alone on Jnah Fernandez.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
A passenger train cm the Union Pa
ciflo railroad was snow-bound in tho
Red Roqt Mountains as early aa the 4 th
of September.
In Colorado, a girl who can't go
after the oowa on a bare-bark pony,
without bridle or halter, is looked upon
with contempt.
It may be ennobling to labor, as the
philosopher says, but it's no tire to tell
a man so after he's just finished carry
ing in two tons of coal with a banket.
If you wake up ia the night in an
Italian hotel and shoot a burglar the
chances are that you can't see the land
lord next morning and that bid wife U a
widow.'
" Whom Jo great men marry?"
asked an exchange. We can't tnj pos
itively, but the chances are that, like
their leeser brethren, they have married
women.
There's something sad, and yet
soothing and gentle, about a harp when
thumbed by au Italian !oy whose face
hasn't felt clean water for four moons
and a half.
Illinois women are so nenr-sig'itol
that they can't tell their husband rom
a mule when ten feet away. In some
cases a long sighted woman can't tsll
the difference.
A New Jersey clergyman says there
aro about twenty different kinds of reli
gion, but a man who won't wanli aod
shave and put on clean fchirts can't en
joy any of them.
A tomb in tho Yazoo, Miss., ceme
tery, bears this inscription :
" Hor lies interred rrincinnint.
Who ftng on earth till aim-two ;
Now no on liinh, abov Mm uliy.
No doubt site ingn liko iit, too."
Wh at 1 yon take yon r tnother-in-1 aw
out shooting ? " says a French rrt
man in one of Charn'a picture to an
other sportsman. " Yet," ta the reply,
"with a five-dollar gun that I have
presented her thero is no knowing
what may happen."
It is stated npon good authority
that in the city of Philadelphia there
are 40,000 men out of employment and
50,000 in the rest of tho state, and thin
in a rioh state with fplendid and well
developed agricultural, miniDg and
manufacturing interests.
" Shaker girls don't poak to Shaker
boys," says tho Pittsfiold Jlaglc. " In't
there some boy here that you are just a,
little fonder of than tho others ?" is a
standing question in tho confessional,
but the young Shaker always "nays."
If she " yeas " she gets the sack.
An imperial decree has been issued
at Constantinople, making it imperative
for the faithful to repeat the prescribed
prayers five times a day. This is be
cnase of recent severe fires in that city,
which aro attributed to neglect of this
duty. Maybe this is also what ails
Chicago.
Anybody who thinks that the good
old Revolutionary stock has run out
should be in Dover cf sn evening aQd
hear a mother call to her eigLteen yt ar
old son: "Tom Thomaa JefTeraon
Dnggs ! If you don't come in here this
minute I'll come out and start you with
this picket 1"
nappv tlioneht that of tho faah-
ionable school teacher, who, when asked
by a pupil, " Who is the present king
of Switzerland?" said, "This is not
the hour, yon know, when talking is
nermitted. Ask me at the next session.
and I will tell yon," and then rnsled
to the bookcase.
The Oswego Times stated tho other
day that a Mr. Andrews boarded and
lodged with Mrs. Angelino Bliss, and
that lady writes indignantly : " I do
not know as you done it to injure mo
but it does aud I do not mean to bo run
anon by any ono mr. androw never log
cd with me nor no other man."
Susan Jane must have leen scantily
dressed when sho was looking out for
her lover and sang :
" He'll come to-tiiplit; tlio wind' t rout,
Tli moon ia full arid fair ;
I'll woar the droM that iikiaited him bMit
A ribbon in my hair."
An old gentleman went into the
office of one of the papers in St. John,
N. B., the othr day, aijjj presenting a
slip cut from a London pHper announc
ing the death of a person woll-known iu
St. John, asked to have it inserted, "a
there are a great many friends of bis
here who wonld like to hear of his
death."
The " IriHh team," who came all thn
way from Dnblin to exhibit their skill
in rifle-shooting, were beaUn by their
competitors at Creedmoor, recently.
The only visible chance for the exiles of
Erin to recover the lot honors, now, i
in persuading the visitor to submit to
a competitive examination with uliilla
lahs. Tho odds wonld be ton to one, in
the "pools," on their side, at that
game.
"Dear George, how sweet and
wavy that wheat is 1" said a fair young
lady, looking languidly from a cr win
dow. "Yes, lovo, how beautiful!"
says dear George, more intent on in
sinuating his arm around a tenty-fonr-bone
corset, "how like a a how lice
a dweam 1" " How liko oat 1" retorted
a dicgnsted granger; "them's oats,
yonng man."
A Milwaukee editor took a front
seat in the parquctte at the Academy
of Musio tho other night, and when the
curtain went np thero were cries of
"Put him out," " Pin 'em back, "Flop
'em over his head," "We can't see,
and similar ejaculations. Ilia ears wore
unfurled, and they obstructed the view
of the play from the immense aadienoo
present.
nArriNFsfl is mostly a creatnre of ac
cident. We never saw a happier man
than the one who popped the qaestion
in the dark to tho wrong won an, and
jot rejected ; excepting xrhp tho
coble creature who was drafted during
the lato war, and eamo out of tho
examination-room with the remark,
Whoop 1 the doctor said he couldn't
take roe. He said I had the consump
tion and I wouldn't live six month.
And here's for a good time daring tho
six months, anyhow."
A celebrated author says : " If I
were to choose tho people with whom I
would spend my honr of conversation,
they should bo certainly such as labored
no farther than to mako tbemndvc
readily and clearly apprehended, and
wonld have patieno and curiosity to
understand me. To have a good sense,
and ability to express it, are the most
estential and necessary qualities in com
panions. When thoughts riso in u fit
for ns to ntter among familiar friands,
there needs but very little care in cloth
ing them."
A diamond wedding, wincn, among
the Jews in Germany, is celebrated on
the sixtieth anniversary of a marriage,
occurred the other day in Hsrobnrg,
the bridegroom being Herr Heilbnt,
who at six in the morning was conducted
by a committee to a synagogue, with a
procession headed by a hand of music.
All along the ronto he was reecivxi wuii
cheers from spectators. All the digni
taries of the city offered their congrat
ulations. Among the gifts to the bride
was a Hebrew prayer-book, magnifi
cently bonnd, with a large diamond set
in the cover, the gift of the Empress of
Oerniany, with a complimentary letter
from her majesty.
Out of Herculaneum.
An interesting discovery of a life-size
female bust in pure silver has 1st, ly
teen made at Hercnlaneura. The work,
according to an account given in tho
Patrie, is in a state or excellent prf ser
ration, and is the only sp cimen of its
kind which has been found daring the
course of the excavation. At first the
material was thought to be only bronze,
the action of the sulphnr having some
what altered the appearance of the sur
face, and the sulphate of silver whioh
has formed upon the metal yielding a
black color like that found ia the com
monest sort of material. The bast ws
removed to the museum, when ono of
the keepers, struck with the unusual
tone of the brone, scraped away a part
of the surface, and at once came upon
the silver beneath. A discus on Lat
arisen whether the work was originally
cast or chiselled, but there srems now
little donbt that tho former hypothesis
is correct. Tho head is that of a yonng
and beautiful woman, but as yet the
features htve not been Identified with
those of any other extant head,